Strategies of Peace

Daniel Philpott and Gerard Powers

Description

How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty? In Strategies of Peace, the first volume in the Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding series, fifteen leading scholars propose an imaginative and provocative approach to peacebuilding. Today the dominant thinking is the "liberal peace," which stresses cease fires, elections, and short run peace operations carried out by international institutions, western states, and local political elites. But the liberal peace is not enough, the authors argue. A just and sustainable peace requires a far more holistic vision that links together activities, actors, and institutions at all levels. By exploring innovative models for building lasting peace-a United Nations counter-terrorism policy that also promotes good governance; coordination of the international prosecution of war criminals with local efforts to settle civil wars; increasing the involvement of religious leaders, who have a unique ability to elicit peace settlements; and many others--the authors advance a bold new vision for peacebuilding.

Strategies of Peace

Daniel Philpott and Gerard Powers

Author Information

Daniel Philpott is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations.

Gerard F. Powers is Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-editor of Peacemaking: Moral and Policy Challenges for a New World.

Contributors:

R. Scott Appleby is a Professor of History and John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Simon Chesterman is Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Program and Associate Professor Law at the National University of Singapore

David Cortright is Directory of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Hal Culbertson is the Executive Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Robert D. Enright is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a board member of the International Forgiveness Institute, Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin

Jeanette Knutson Enright is an Educational Consultant with the International Forgiveness Institute, Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin

Larissa Fast is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Anthony C. Holter is on the Faculty of the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program in the Alliance for Catholic Education and Concurrent Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame

Robert C. Johansen is a Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

John Paul Lederach is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

George A. Lopez is the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Daniel Philpott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Gerard F. Powers is on the faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and is coordinator of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network.

Nicholas Sambanis is a Professor of Political Science at Yale University

Jackie Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Oliver Richmond is a Professor in the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the LawPeter Wallensteen is the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Strategies of Peace

Daniel Philpott and Gerard Powers

Reviews and Awards

"Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and the international community have been confronted by countless conflicts - civil, ethnic, religious, separatist, and others - for which our existing tool-kit was inadequate. As the distinguished authors in Strategies of Peace make clear, peacebuilding today requires comprehensive, far-sighted, and sustainable policies that respond to the defining characteristics of the early 21st century: interdependence, dynamism, and complexity. This remarkable and fascinating volume is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners." --Lee H. Hamilton, President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars